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TOOL 03 · Figma plugin · Free on Figma Community
Forge
A Figma plugin that turns the styles already in your file into design tokens and Figma Variables. Styles in, Variables out.
FreeFor design system owners migrating existing styles to Figma Variables.
- Type
- Figma plugin
- Made by
- Designed and built by Basma Gh
- Price
- Free on Figma Community
The problem
Most mature Figma files predate Variables. Moving to them by hand means recreating every value and rebinding every layer.
What it does
Extracts color, text and effect styles as grouped tokens, lets you review them, then creates the Variables and collections.
Who it's for
Design system owners migrating existing styles to Figma Variables.
Styles were the past. Variables are the handoff.
Colors, text and effects live as styles, the documentation lives in a separate page, and engineers get hex codes in a spreadsheet. Moving to Variables by hand is exactly the kind of work nobody schedules.
Forge does the tedious part. It reads the styles a file already has, turns them into a token set and creates the Variables for you, so the tokens, the documentation and the handoff point at the same source. No AI credits: Forge works from what is already in your library.
Three steps, no retyping.
- 01Extract
Forge scans the color, text and effect styles in the current file and lists them as design tokens, grouped the way a token system expects.
- 02Review
Check names and groups before anything is created. The token structure you approve is the one that ends up in the file.
- 03Convert
Forge generates the Figma Variables and collections from the approved set, so the file becomes variable-driven and ready for modes, documentation and code handoff.
What changes.
- One source of truth
- Tokens, documentation and handoff read from the same Variables instead of three drifting copies.
- Built for existing files
- Forge is for the file you already have, not a greenfield setup. Legacy styles become a modern token layer.
- Hours, not days
- A manual migration becomes a run of the plugin and a review pass.
- Free on Figma Community
- Install it, run it on a copy of your file, keep what works.
Questions, answered.
Is Forge free?
Yes. Forge is free on Figma Community.
Does Forge use AI or AI credits?
No. Forge reads the styles already in your file and library and works from those.
What does Forge convert?
Color, text and effect styles. It lists them as grouped tokens for review, then creates Figma Variables and collections from the approved set.
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